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The state rolled out an updated version of its health-care comparison tool, FloridaHealthFinder.gov, on Tuesday, adding more data about hospitals, nursing homes, doctors and health plans. “We are constantly trying to find ways to improve FloridaHealthFinder.gov as a resource for health care transparency,” Molly McKinstry of Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) said in a statement. The site now offers data about the patient volume for hospitals and other health-care providers, health outcomes and performance data through March 2014. For nursing homes, the inspection ratings are now available through September 2014. Consumers can also compare...

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The state rolled out an updated version of its health-care comparison tool, FloridaHealthFinder.gov, on Tuesday, adding more data about hospitals, nursing homes, doctors and health plans.
“We are constantly trying to find ways to improve...

Emily had a habit of always taking her favorite purse along with her, when it was time for her late afternoon shower. Taking her purse along made the task of showering a lot easier for Emily and her caregivers.
When 6 p.m. rolled around, and as the...

With U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald touring Orlando’s veterans clinic in Baldwin Park and medical center at Lake Nona, U.S. Rep. John Mica said he’s hearing what needs to be said.
At a press briefing Thursday morning after McDonald...

A man who noticed bruises on his father, a nursing home resident with dementia, set up a hidden camera and caught two employees hitting him, a Winter Haven police spokeswoman said.
Two certified nursing assistants at Palm Garden nursing home, 28-year-old...

TALLAHASSEE – Florida’s silver-haired voter demographic has a clear message for its gubernatorial front-runners: talk to us.
A new AARP Florida poll suggests voters ages 50 and up are increasingly worried about their finances, feeling they are falling...

John Morgan, founder of Morgan & Morgan, is expanding the firm’s focus on commercial contingency litigation -- taking a case where a business is suing another business but only getting paid if the client wins.
Morgan said he’s planning to add...

Lakeridge Winery and Vineyards' 20th annual Harvest Grape Stomp is this weekend at the winery, 19239 U.S. Highway 27, south of Clermont.Anyone willing to take off their shoes and stomp out the juice of large squishy grapes inside a pit can participate...

TALLAHASSEE — House budget-writers have responded to Gov. Rick Scott's call to prioritize education this year with a $74.4 billion spending plan that includes more money for teacher raises and universities. Both the House and Senate are releasing their b

By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — The House released an initial health and human-services budget proposal Tuesday that would chop hospital Medicaid rates by $291 million next year and trim a series of benefits for low-income Flor

By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — The Senate's chief health-budget writer likely will propose $390 million in general-revenue cuts to health and human-services programs, though nursing homes and developmental-disability programs

By Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel In the weeks since Gov. Rick Scott called for the ouster of Florida's top nursing-home watchdog, Republican lawmakers have introduced more than a dozen bills that critics claim would further “neuter” the ombudsman

TALLAHASSEE — A Florida Senate committee unexpectedly ran aground Monday on a bill that would give tighter lawsuit-protections to corporate owners in nursing-home negligence lawsuits. The bill, SB 1396, would place a $250,000 non-economic cap on damages

One of Gov. Rick Scott's first acts when he took office in January was to fire Brian Lee,the longtime state ombudsman who ran a network of volunteer inspectors charged with evaluating nursing homes and blowing the whistle on substandard conditions. Though Scot

TALLAHASSEE — Florida House and Senate budget-writers started the work of bridging their $3.3 billion in differences Wednesday morning, and health-care spending was one of the early action arenas. Both chambers passed spending plans that were roughly $90

There are issues about which reasonable people can disagree. And then there are schemes that are just plain evil. The current zeal of Gov. Rick Scott and some legislators going after the state's long-term care ombudsman program — a mostly volunteer group

TALLAHASSEE — Florida nursing homes serving Medicaid patients are taking significant reimbursement cuts to the tune of $187 million in the $69.6 billion budget that lawmakers are preparing to pass on Friday. But House and Senate lawmakers are trying to m

TALLAHASSEE — The 2011 lawmaking session isn't over yet, but the canned scorn from affected unions and conservation groups is filling up the inbox. Here's a sampling, with a rare dose of praise from Associated Industries of Florida: “This legislative se

By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida ATLANTA — Grappling with how far Congress’ powers can go, three appeals-court judges Wednesday pointedly questioned attorneys in a case that could decide the future of last year’s federal health overhaul. Flor

As Congress prepares to examine the budget, one Republican proposal suggests cuts to the Medicaid program. A new study says those Medicaid cuts would mean the loss of about 11,300 jobs and could cost the state $1.2 billion in business activity this year, if e